I often take photos from other users feeds (who tag my accounts) and Pinch & Zoom them (providing they are high quality) in order to get a full screen screenshot of their photo in order to post to my Instagram Stories accounts while giving photographer credits.

Make sure you brush up on your Credit & Copyright Rules For Instagram so you can open your account up to new sources of content while ensuring your account stays safe from Copyright Infringement.

Why Pinch & Zoom (and ROTATE) is a big deal?

It’s important for me as a Marketer, Content Creator and Influencer to be able to have maximum control when posting to Instagram Stories especially if I am going to be posting content that I already took on my phone (or was sent to me by a client).

While Instagram Stories allows us to add different filters, emojis and text over our photos or videos, it never before allowed us to Pinch & Zoom & Rotate the photo or video to our liking.

This was a huge drawback as it required us to crop photos using a 3rd party app before we could post a photo or video zoomed in or in full 9:16 ratio for Vertical Format Instagram Stories. This took up lots of my time and could have been solved with this Pinch & Zoom & Rotate feature that is now available for both iOS & Android.

While we are reviewing a NEW Instagram feature, make sure you’ve read how the NEW Close Friends List will be making my students and I lots of NEW money as we take advantage of this brand new feature!